define global dummy field without a length

[Dennis Malen]

Thanks Jeff!

That was my alternate plan.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>; "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: define global dummy field without a length


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> --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:
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>> From: Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com>
>> Subject: define global dummy field without a length
>> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 1:09 PM
>> Usual approach: aa(8,,g)
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>> How can I define a global dummy field without the "8"?
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>> aa(,,g) does not work.
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>> aa is a variable length.
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>> Dennis Malen
>> 516.479.5912
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> Hi Dennis.  I don't think you can do that, but I'm wondering why you need 
> to?  Why don't you just declare a very large size like aa(1000,,g) and 
> then move it into a non-defined field if necessary in your local table?
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> For example if yy is your local non-defined field:
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> aa(1000,,g)
> yy=aa { ""
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> Good Luck.
>
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
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